For goodness' sake, buy a book or a CD

I read recently that record album sales are down 11 percent from the year before. That's where the domino effect starts to crimp creativity. Not only are the big stars hurting on sales, but the little guy will have a harder time of becoming a pop star icon, let alone making a living at making music.

The same goes for people who write. Whether they are writing short stories, novels, poetry, nonfiction, after a while if there is no audience, the disincentive to go on can be overwhelming.

The similarities between free music downloads and reading everything for free online may point to the same target, that disincentive to create.

If a copyright on a work has no  meaning and the artist cannot earn rewards for work, we all might as well become actuaries somewhere.

I'd write more, but only if you buy one or more of my 18 books.

Just a few of my book titles.

Buccino: Nutley Notables Autograph Party Sunday Afternoon

A NEW BOOK FOR NUTLEY HISTORY LOVERS 
NUTLEY NOTABLES: THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO MADE 
A MEMORABLE IMPACT ON OUR HOME TOWN, NUTLEY, NEW JERSEY 
BY ANTHONY BUCCINO 

 Nutley Notables invited to afternoon group-autograph session 
at coffee clatch on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 18, at Jarets Stuffed Cupcakes 

NUTLEY, NJ – In a new twist to the author signing and book launch for his new book Nutley Notables, the Men and Women Who Made a Memorable Impact on Our Home Town, Nutley, New Jersey, local author Anthony Buccino is inviting all the people mentioned in the 200-plus pages of biographical sketches about Nutley people to come and sign their profile page at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015, at Jarets Stuffed Cupcakes, 231 Franklin Avenue, Nutley, N.J.

Nutley Notables include Old West sharpshooter Annie Oakley who has a street here named in her honor; home-diva Martha Stewart who grew up on Elm Place and often writes of growing up in Nutley but has no street named for her; and others who may have to wait a while for street naming honors.

Featured individuals run the gamut from politicians to high school coaches and athletes; from notorious personalities to beloved entertainers to the fellow in the local shop to the artists and writers who toiled long ago and today. Their images and stories document the unique contributions they've made that shaped Nutley today. Even the most ardent Nutley historian will find new surprises in this collection.

 The book launch will be at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015, at Jarets Stuffed Cupcakes, 231 Franklin Avenue, Nutley, N.J. For more information, visit NutleyNotables.com. A limited supply will be available on site.

The book is available online at Amazon.com

 About the Author 

Nutley writer and author Anthony Buccino has published more than 15 books including four essay collections and three military history books. Buccino's writings won 2014 Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism Awards. His stories of the 1960s and his transit blog earned earlier SPJ Excellence in Journalism awards.

 For more information visit Nutley Notables

Who’s Who in Nutley Notables 

More than 200 Nutley notables are mentioned in Nutley Notables, the Men and Women Who Made a Memorable Impact on Our Home Town, Nutley, New Jersey, by Anthony Buccino.

 Here is a partial list of some notables you may or may not know:

NYC Subway’s ‘Courtesy’ Campaign Against Manspreading Backfires

‘Dude, stop the spread!’ The New York Subway adverts that will bid to tackle the scourge of ‘manspreading’

• Posters are aimed at men who spread their legs and hog space on trains 
• Campaign will carry slogan: Courtesy Counts: Manners Make a Better Ride 
• More customers than ever are crowding onto New York underground trains 
• As many as 6.1 million riders were used the Subway on a single day in 2014 

 If you ever commuted to work, you'll enjoy reading Anthony Buccino's latest collection "This Seat Taken? Notes of a Hapless Commuter" about the joys and follies of getting to and from work in the city using metropolitan public transit. 

 This Seat Taken - Notes of a Hapless Commuter by Anthony Buccino

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Buccino rings in new year at poetry marathon in Montclair

The Montclair Monthly Poetry Series, coordinated by Laura Boss and Maria Mazziotti Gillan, is presenting a New Year Poetry Marathon Reading on Thursday, January 8. 

This free event is from 7 p.m. to - 9 p.m. at the Montclair Public Library (auditorium), 50 South Fullerton Ave., Montclair, New Jersey.

Local poets will read a few poems each during the Marathon portion of the evening. An open reading will follow. 

Poets include: Susan Amsterdam, Susan Lembo Balik, Ron Bremner, Anthony Buccino, Linda Cronin, Gail Fishman Gerwin, Martin Golan, Jim Gwyn, Elizabeth Marchitti, Marilyn Mohr, Frank Niccoletti, Ken Ronkowitz, Bob Rosenbloom, Rachel Parker, Janet Kolstein, Elissa Gordon and D. M. Dutcher.

Buccino has published seven poetry collections.

• American Boy: Pushing Sixty
• CANNED - Booted, bumped, down-sized, fired, forced out, hated, hired, jobless, laid off, let go, out of work, out-sourced, pink-slipped, terminated, sacked, unemployed
• One Morning In Jersey City
• Retrieving Labrador Days dog tales in prose and verse
• Sixteen Inches On Center
• Sometimes I Swear In Italian
• Voices on the Bus train, subway, sidewalk and in my head
• Yountakah Country - A Poetic View of Nutley, Old and New

He created the New Jersey Poets and Poetry site and posted a short A Buccino Poem A Day series.

Buccino publishes book for history lovers

A New Book for Nutley History Lovers 

Nutley Notables: The Men and Women Who Made a Memorable Impact on Our Home Town, Nutley, New Jersey 

by Anthony Buccino

Nutley writer and author Anthony Buccino has published Nutley Notables, the Men and Women Who Made a Memorable Impact on Our Home Town, Nutley, New Jersey. 

Buccino published more than fifteen books including four essay collections, three military history books and seven full-length poetry collections.  He has been called ' “New Jersey’s ‘Garrison Keillor” or something to that effect.’ His poem  At The Vet has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

The township of Nutley, New Jersey, has accumulated a wealth of celebrated and eccentric people who over-shadowed the salt-of-the-earth folks who lived here, raised their families and built the town into the place that Norman Rockwell only dreamed of illustrating for the cover of the  Saturday Evening Post. This new book profile nearly 200 townsfolks,  some you may know and many you will not forget.   

Go Ahead, Eat a Pretzel at the Football Game

It was a terrific job. They sent me out from under the concrete bleachers into the crowds and I yelled, “Pretzels! Pretzels!” and people would call me up the rows and rows of bleachers to buy a pretzel or two.

 

... On autumn Saturdays through those treacherous teen years the different age groups would appear at the high school game for sundry reasons. Most pre-teens actually went to watch the game and root, root, root for the home team. 

 The pubescents sought out their own, and like strange dogs meeting for the first time, they spied, sniffed and checked each other pubescent and gathered under the Saturday sun.

My best friend, Teen Angel, worked at a local bakery-deli for a few years. His uncle Harry pushed and pulled and got him in with Ed Strat at Belle Maid on Joralemon Street near the Rec House in Belleville... That's how I ended up selling pretzels at the high school games...

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Read: Greetings From Belleville, New Jersey by Anthony Buccino

Rainy Day Children of the Summer

Kids in my old neighborhood found fun things

to entertain them during a summer storm from watching

the sidewalk steam away its heat to dodging raindrops

to call one another out to play.

The best part of being a kid on Gless Avenue in Belleville in the 1960s was having four cousins - Patsy, Tommy, Bobby and Lorraine - living next door, and about a dozen other kids all just a few houses up or down our dead end street.

For a few years, my Dad’s older brother Joe lived by himself downstairs from us after Gram died. Uncle Joe was old then, to me, anyway, and had no kids of his own, as far as any of us knew. And it seemed to us as if he was already retired, or simply too worn out to work anymore.

Someone called him a babysitter once because he had a half dozen kids and me playing on his front porch. He just smiled at the babysitter remark and waved his hands in a "suffer the little children" gesture.

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